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13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 137. The gome was vngarnyst with god men to dele.
c. 1400. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) V. i. 74. How durst ony wyght trowen … that he wold leuen his regne … vngarnysed of his werkes.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 249 b. Thei shall … deplore, and lament their vngarnished estate, and naked condicion.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. i. 291. A Heav’n … Un-garnished, un-gilt with Stars apparent.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther, viii. May my vngarnisht Quill presume so much, To glorifie it selfe.
1641. Milton, Animadv., § 4. 38. He that now for haste snatches up a plain ungarnish’t present as a thanke-offering to thee.
1705. Watts, Lyrick Poems, II. (1743), 144. Beauteous she lies;… Ungarnish’d; yet not blushing.
1800. Wordsw., Michael, 19. A story … ungarnished with events.
a. 1847. Eliza Cook, Christmas Song of Poor Man, ii. Some scrap, ungarnished, cold and scant.
1876. Fox Bourne, Locke, II. xi. 189. Plain, ungarnished words were certainly the best.
